"From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters."

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Nadine Gordimer

#Character Quotes #Keys Quotes #Stories Quotes

“You know, your clothes may say disco, but your eyes say rock n roll.”

Source : "Detroit Rock City". Carl V. Dupré, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.”

Source : 1666 Diary entry, 2 Sep.The Great Fire of London continued for four days, destroying four-fifths of the total area of the city.
“It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.”

Source : Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.40, Hachette UK
“'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.”
“I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.”
“You can't feel happy unless you feel free.”
“It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 52), 1991.

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